Causes of Civil War
Why was the south so committed to keeping slavery?
Even though most were not slaveholders plantations were making boatloads of money specifically in cotton.
How did the Emancipation Proclamation improve the union army?
Allowed black soldiers to enlist.
What did Southern States have to do agree to before rejoining the union?
Ratifying the 13th and 14th Amendment.
What was the importance of the Plessey V Ferguson case?
It involved a black man (Homer Plessey) sitting in a white railroad car, he was arrested and later filed an appeal saying the arrest violated the 14th Amendment. Supreme Court said that his rights were not violated and that separate facilities were fine as long as they were equal. (They were never equal)
Why was the first Ku Kluk Klan formed?
To prevent African Americans from voting trying to force carpetbaggers to leave?
How are popular sovereignty and the Kansas Nebraska Act related?
The Kansas Nebraska Act reversed the Missouri Compromise allowing western territories to vote on the issue of slavery.
What was the goal of the anaconda plan?
To stop the south from getting outside supplies.
How did the 14th Amendment overturn the Dred Scott decision?
It said anyone born in America was considered a citizen. (remains this way today)
How did Southern states circumvent the 15th Amendment?
Poll taxes, literacy test grandfather clauses to name a few reasons.
What was the purpose of the freedmen's bureau?
To educate former slaves and make them self sufficient.
Why did the Dred Scott decision anger many northerners?
It said blacks could not be citizens and seemed to limit the rights of states to restrict slavery.
What were three advantages the north had over the south before the start of the civil war.
More people, more railroads, more manufacturing, a treasury, telegraphs.
How did the 15th Amendment change politics in the south?
Black men could vote and enter politics leading to black republican elected officials.
How did Jim Crow laws affect African Americans in the South?
They kept them in separate but worse facilities limiting any economic gains they could make.
What made the radical republicans program so radical to some?
It called for giving freedmen equal rights and taking land confiscated during the civil war and giving it to the former slaves.
Why did the Compromise of 1850 leave the north unpleased?
Fugitive Slave Law included sending slave catchers up north.
Why were the Battle of Vicksburg and Gettysburg turning point battles?
Vicksburg South split into two north has Mississippi River.
Gettysburg- Bloodiest battle south on defensive afterwards.
How did the 14th Amendment abolish the black codes?
It said everyone was equal under the law so laws which exclusively applied to a certain race were made illegal.
Why couldn't many African Americans leave the South after the Civil War.
Debt Peonage tied them to the land if they fell behind on payments they could not leave.
Who made up the republican coalition in the south?
Freed black men.
Carpetbaggers- northerners who came down south to support reconstruction some to profit.
Scalawags-white southerners who supported reconstruction efforts.
If Lincoln wasn't an abolitionist why did the south feel so threatened by his election?
He spoke out against slavery and said he would allow it to expand.
Which slaves were not freed with the emancipation proclamation?
The ones in Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland where slavery was legal but the states remained apart of the union. (Border States)
After the 13th Amendment passed what job did many African Americans and later many poor whites take?
Sharecroppers or tenant farming, don't own the land pay part of your crop to the man who owns it. This leads to a lot debt.
(Deals with Civil War) How do you think women's lives changed during the Civil War.
Many were able to work outside the home for the first time as so many men were away. Some worked as nurses some in factories building supplies for the war effort.
What ended reconstruction?
Decline in support due to a cost. Backroom deal at the end of the 1876 election Republican Rutherford Hayes enters the Whitehouse but federal troops leave the South.